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Then when the Laird came in, I saw that his grey eyes were Annas's, though I should not call them alike in other respects. Lady Monksburn is a dear old lady; and as she comes from the South, I must never say a word against Southerners again.
And there also is a stone in the wall, beside the gate, of the pillar that our Lord was scourged at. And there was Annas's house, that was bishop of the Jews in that time. And there was our Lord examined in the night, and scourged and smitten and villainous entreated. And that same place Saint Peter forsook our Lord thrice or the cock crew.
'Rulers, elders, and scribes' made up the constituent members of the court, and the same two 'high priests' who had tried Jesus are there, attended by a strong contingent of dependants, who could be trusted to vote as they were bidden. Annas was an emeritus high priest, whose age and relationship to Caiaphas, the actual holder of the post and Annas's son-in-law, gave him an influential position.
There was a soft, low, weird-like prelude: and then came a voice like that of a thrush, at which every other in the room seemed to hush instinctively. Each word was clear. This was Annas's song. "She said, `We parted for a while, But we shall meet again ere long; I work in lowly, lonely room, And he amid the foreign throng: But here I willingly abide, Here, where I see the other side.
"O Ephraim!" cried I. "But where is he?" "Don't tell any one, if I tell you. Remember, Colonel Keith is a proscribed man." "I will do no harm to Annas's brother, trust me!" said I. "He is at Raymond's house, where he and I have been nursing him." "In a fever!" "Oh, it is not a catching fever. Think you either of us would have come here if it were?"
Now he brushes aside all Annas's attempts to impose on him the sanctity of its decrees, and flatly denies that the Council has any more right to command than any other 'men. They claimed to be depositaries of God's judgments. This revolutionary fisherman sees nothing in them but 'men, whose commands point one way, while God's point the other.
Those grey eyes of Annas's seem to see everything. I am sure she saw that Flora would like a quiet talk with Lady Monksburn, and she carried me to see her peacocks and silver pheasants, which are great pets, she says; and they are so tame that they will come and eat out of her hand. Of course they were shy with me.
"Pretty!" said Miss Newton, in the tone which people use when they do not think a thing pretty, but fancy that you expect them to say so: "but not so charming as Miss Bracewell's song." "Wait," said I; "she has not finished yet." The harp was speaking now in a sad low voice, rising gradually to a note of triumph. Then it sank low again, and Annas's voice continued the song.
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